THE LIFE-BOAT Christmas card and the calendar for 1939 will have the above picture reproduced on them in colours.

The picture shows a modern motor life-boat of the Watson type being launched down a slipway. It has been specially painted for the Institution by Mr. L. F. Gilding, a member of its staff.

The card will be an eight-page card with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside; and inside, Christmas and New Year greetings. The price will be 4d. each with envelope. If twenty-five or more are ordered, the name and address can be printed under the greetings. The price with the name and address printed will be Qd.

each for quantities from twenty-five to fifty. If fifty or more are ordered, no charge will be made for printing the name and address.

Owing to the customs duties, it print in the Irish will not be possible to names and addresses for Free State.

As in previous years, the calendar will have the record of lives saved printed on the front and other particulars on the back.

It will be llj inches long by 9 inches wide, and can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 10s. a dozen, this price including an envelope with each calen- dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, just under four ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope open, for Id.

Those who wish to order calendars and cards can do so at once. Orders should be sent to the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and postal orders or stamps enclosed..